January 2012
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Hidden Rooms and 'Dead' Spaces →
A MeFi post about “… (a) long-forgotten “hidden” rooms in houses and other buildings and (b) “dead space” in houses, e.g., large unfinished areas behind walls that are only perhaps discovered years later.”
Chock full of oddities. Like this one about a recently constructed dungeon found in old abandoned house. The house was mysteriously burned down before...
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In Which I Fix My Girlfriend's Grandparent's WiFi... →
You’ve probably already read this, but just in case …
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“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!”
– Steve McCroskey
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Who Pinched My Ride? →
Great article about the booming bike stealing business; about $350 million worth of bikes are stolen a year. Whose stealing them and why?
Stolen bicycles have become a solvent in America’s underground economy, a currency in the world of drug addicts and petty thieves. Bikes are portable and easily converted to cash, and they usually vanish without a trace—in some places, only 5 percent are even...
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Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t →
Loads of modern urban legends expounded upon. The Rake was very creepy. /via
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High-Speed Animal Flight Videos →
Geese flying upside down, sparrows brawling, and flies bumbling. All in glorious slow motion.
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Mist Over Valley →
Taken in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java, Indonesia.
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All-Edge Sicilian Pizza →
Brilliant!
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This Wikipedia page of NFL Lore should get you properly siked for this weekends game. Eli to Tyree for “The Helmet Catch” is still one of my favorite plays (and I hate the Giants).
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I very much enjoyed Stephen Wildish’s alphabetical film quizzes. I rocked the 90s, but was only so-so on the other decades. /via
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My son and I saw Incredible Cross-Sections of Star Wars at the library this past weekend. It was chocked full of nerdly goodness like this:
We didn’t even check the book out. We just sat down and devoured it on the spot.
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SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is a documentary about LCD Soundsystem’s final concert. I want see this, not because I like LCD Soundsystem (I do), but I’m more fascinated with endings. We all have them, right? Surely not as epic as Murphy’s last concert. But we all leave jobs, graduate from schools, end relationships, and generally stop doing things we have done for long spans of time. This is an...
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This is Cold night, warm hearts by Jim Hamann:
It’s part of an awesome collection of the photos he took in Frederick, Maryland (where we live) during 2011. It even got picked up by the city paper. Jim is one of the great local photographers who live and snap around town. Jim, Jay Divinagracia, Bill Adkins, and many more are constantly capturing the day to day moments that entertain and...
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Danger →
A Mix of New York based Hip-Hop from the Golden Age of the genre (1994-1998).
Nice!
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WatchThis is the elevator trip to the top of the library parking deck. Shot after a long day of playing in the warm January sun with my boy.
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How to make a White Russian →
In the wind and rain.
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“I named him Fezzik after André René Roussimoff’s character in The Princess...”
– Joshua Longbrake on his recently stolen car. First, sorry to hear about the theft. Second, great name for a car. I haven’t named my last two cars and I’m not sure why. Maybe because they didn’t have as much character as my first couple rides:
The Gold Gonzo - a gold Dodge Charger,...
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Cabin Life →
I’ve got this little postage stamp of property up in West Virginia, .62 acres as the surveyors make it out, and a broken-down cabin with a decent well and Berkeley Springs just 24 minutes’ drive around the mountain. Property taxes were about $250 a year, the electric bill was usually $8-10, and I heat with nice carbon-neutral fallwood. The cabin is a foul-smelling, lopsided, swiftly...
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December 2011
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Mad Dog Installs California’s First Self-Serve... →
Situated near the front window of the bar, the otherwise-normal table features two taps in its center (both pouring Widmer, or at least branded that way), which allow customers to pour to their hearts’ and thirsts’ delights.
According to TableTender’s website, “the amount of beer dispensed is recorded and displayed on a meter at the table, enabling both the consumer and wait-staff to monitor...
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“Late last night, inspecting Santa’s handiwork, a simple thought occurred to me....”
– From John Gruber. Choked up a bit reading that.
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Said the Gramophone: Best Songs of 2011, one hundred tracks for your listening and downloading pleasure.
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I think I could link to just about all of Patrick Joust’s photos, but this one is amazing:
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Christmas in Harlem is one of my more favorite Christmas songs now.
A Look Inside Amazon.com, I think I saw The Ark of the Covenant in there.
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Radwanderung, this gave me sweaty palms in the “don’t look down” way.
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The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science used infrared motion-detecting cameras to capture photos of animals (and humans) using underground highway culverts to “cross” roads.
Example:
In answer to your “so what” question:
The results could impact how culverts are built and where they are placed to help wildlife connect to habitats bisected by...
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I really dig these Woodbots by North Kingdom: